02/29/2012

two quotes good enough to take home

Going through pictures on my camera, I'd taken pictures of these two quotes just so I'd have them later. You have to step out of America to be reminded we don't have a monopoly on righteousness.

A token of everlasting remembrance of the slaughter victims.A warning to rulers that no social conflict in our country can be resolved by forceA sign of hope for fellow-citizens that evil need not prevail.

Gdańsk, Memorial of the Fallen Shipyard Workers, 1970

Syria? Hello, Syria?

One should call a spade a spade.What is happening now in Vietnam is a form of torture...Therefore the air raids are a deed of infamy.There are many such in modern history.

They are often associated with place names.Guernica, Oradour, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice, Sharpeville, Treblinka.Violence has triumphed.But the judgement of posterity has fallen heavily on those responsible.Now there is one more name to be added to the list:Hanoi, Christmas 1972.